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Why architects need philosophy to guide the AI design revolution
Two decades ago Lord Norman Foster, one of Britain’s great architects, said that an architect designs for the present, with an awareness of the past, for an essentially unknown future. These days,...
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How AI is rewriting Silicon Valley’s relationship with the Pentagon
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The alarming possibilities of hypersonic flight
The world might well be on the verge of a new arms race. The Trump administration seems to think so, anyway, having announced a U.S. withdrawal from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces agreement, a...
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AI can strategically lie to humans. Are we in trouble?
Last year, researchers at the Alignment Research Center, a non-profit dedicated to aligning future machine learning systems with human interests, gave OpenAI’s large language model GPT-4 an amusing...
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Perplexity, Google, and the battle for AI search supremacy
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Solid-state batteries are finally making their way out of the lab
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LLMs are a dead end to AGI, says François Chollet
It’s 2030, and artificial general intelligence (AGI) is finally here. In the years to come, we’ll use this powerful technology to cure diseases, accelerate discoveries, reduce poverty, and more. In one...
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T-Minus: Counting down 10 upcoming moon missions
The moon is back. In 1966, the Soviet Union made history by soft landing a spacecraft on the moon for the first time. Three years later, Apollo 11 would deliver NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz...
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How Arc Institute is bringing science into the century of biology
If physics ruled the 20th century, the 21st is shaping up to be the century of biology. The past two decades have brought us the completion of the Human Genome Project, the advent of CRISPR technology,...
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The future of data centers — on land, at sea, and in space
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Revolutionary biohybrid robots are coming. Are we prepared?
In 2014, researchers at the University of Illinois created a microscopic swimming robot. This accomplishment alone might not have attracted much attention. But what set it apart was how they...
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NASA medical officer on spending 378 days in a Mars simulation
“Hello,” Kelly Haston, commander of NASA’s Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA), told the press after she and her crewmates emerged from a 378-day stay inside a habitat designed to...
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The AI chip startup that could take down Nvidia
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“Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs
Generative AI has been around for decades, but the systems exploded into the public consciousness in 2022, when OpenAI released ChatGPT, an AI chatbot that could produce remarkably human-like text. The...
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T-Minus: 10 space stations of the future
This is T-Minus, where Freethink’s Kristin Houser counts down the biggest developments in space, from new rocket launches to discoveries that advance our understanding of the universe and our place in...
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The future of fertility, from artificial wombs to AI-assisted IVF
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The rise of the semi-autonomous car
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The startup using balloons to cool the planet
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No, LLMs still can’t reason like humans. This simple test reveals why.
Imagine what would happen if you attempted the following experiment: First, place a washed, fresh tomato and an equally clean carrot on top of a normal kitchen plate. With one hand behind your back,...
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Will AI supercharge hacking — if it hasn’t already?
Earlier this year, a hacker masquerading as an open source developer almost pulled off the biggest hack in history. If not for the heroic efforts of a lone Microsoft engineer, almost every computer...
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Ian Brooke wants to revolutionize flight as we know it
For over two decades, Ian Brooke has wanted to build his very own airplane – one he entirely designed from engine to airfoil. Now, he’s getting that opportunity, and it just so happens that this craft...
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The “Whisperverse”: The future of mobile computing is an AI voice inside your...
Within the next few years, an AI assistant will take up residence inside your head. It will do this by whispering guidance into your ears as you go about your daily routine, reminding you to pick up...
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The master plan to end EV “range anxiety” forever
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AI chatbots may ease the world’s loneliness (if they don’t make it worse)
In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released an advisory about a new public health crisis: the loneliness epidemic. According to Murthy, people of every age and background across the country...
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“Mad King” behavior: A prediction for how 21st-century nuclear war would unfold
“In the first fraction of a millisecond after [a] thermonuclear bomb strikes the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C., there is light. The light superheats the surrounding air to millions of degrees,...
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This $400 genetic test could save your life
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The myth of lone genius: How innovation clusters drive progress
Many cultures have the archetype of the lone genius. These are the hermitic scholars who isolate themselves from worldly concerns to focus on their studies, inventions, and arcane tomes. The thing is,...
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The robotaxis have arrived
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T-Minus: 10 milestones in commercial spaceflight
This is T-Minus, where Freethink counts down the biggest developments in space, from new rocket launches to discoveries that advance our understanding of the universe and our place in it. Humanity is...
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Why futurist Amy Webb sees a “technology supercycle” headed our way
During the 2010s, a group of nonprofits began organizing coding workshops for unemployed coal miners from West Virginia. The plan, futurist and author Amy Webb explained at EmTech MIT 2024, an annual...
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